The aim of this paper is to discuss some relations between academic research and the ascending and institutionalized movement against child labor exploitation in Brazil in the nineties. The interweaving between a democratic scenery consolidation through the new Brazilian Federal Constitution, an ascending institutional youth and infancy supporting net influenced by international discourses, and the opening of academic research lines facing the "new" identified object of child labor, are seen as fundamental to change aspects of the reality. Its necessary to renew the research approaches to know better, with finer analytical instruments and the cooperation between disciplinary fields, the whole complexity of this object in order to subsidize more consistent intervention on reality.
Child labor; Children Rights; Child labor research